Comments on: Polling and FreeBSDhttps://blog.pfsense.org/?p=115
News, reviews and more related to the pfSense firewall projectFri, 02 Dec 2016 22:15:34 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3By: Chris Buechlerhttps://blog.pfsense.org/?p=115&cpage=1#comment-21378
Fri, 17 May 2013 04:04:45 +0000http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=115#comment-21378At this time, polling is not recommended at all.
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Thu, 16 May 2013 18:55:49 +0000http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=115#comment-21373Is this also true in 2013 for an Alix wrapboard? I am running the latest Pfsense (2.0.3) and I am seeing a lot of CPU power being used for device polling, however trying to disable device polling resulted in a unresponsive firewall.
]]>By: Chris Buechlerhttps://blog.pfsense.org/?p=115&cpage=1#comment-139
Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:45:00 +0000http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=115#comment-1396 * 30 Mb is only 180 Mb, a Pentium III can handle that kind of load with good NIC’s, and have power to spare. Routing only is measurably faster than without NAT.

If you’re choking at 180 Mb, not using polling, and using good NIC’s (Intel preferred, and definitely not something like Realtek) your hardware is undersized.

]]>By: dalexhttps://blog.pfsense.org/?p=115&cpage=1#comment-138
Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:12:00 +0000http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=115#comment-138While speed for internet is still adequate, it’s becoming a problem with WIFI. Imagine all 6 (30 Mbit/s capable) links from my home’s roof asking ftp from the server down. The server is capable of supplying the load, but the pfsense router will choke! This is with plain routing, no NAT.
]]>By: Chris Buechlerhttps://blog.pfsense.org/?p=115&cpage=1#comment-125
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:56:00 +0000http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=115#comment-125I assume you mean jumbo frames. No, I have not had a chance to test with jumbo frames yet, though I plan to do so in the future. That’s not applicable to the vast majority of our installs, so it’s not a high priority for me right now.
]]>By: Andershttps://blog.pfsense.org/?p=115&cpage=1#comment-124
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:30:00 +0000http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=115#comment-124Have you also done some testes with jump frames / MTU ?http://www.psc.edu/~mathis/MTU/
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